Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part One. Background of Texas Dances
  • 1. Overview of Texas Dancing
  • 2. Early Texas Dancing
  • 3. Music and Musicians
  • 4. Homespuns and Satins, Buckskins and Boughten Suits
  • 5. Dancing Was Lively despite Obstacles
  • 6. Country Music Influence
  • 7. The Honky-Tonk
  • 8. Texas Dance Halls and Clubs
• Part Two. How to Do Texas Dances
  • 9. General Information
  • 10. Texas Dances
    • Cotton-eyed Joe
    • Cowboy Polka (Jessie Polka)
    • Double Shuffle
    • Garden Waltz
    • Freeze
    • Four Corners
    • Heel-and-Toe Polka
    • Herr Schmidt
    • Mexican Polka
    • Mixer Dances
    • One-Step
    • Seven-Step Polka
    • Put Your Little Foot (New Shoes, Varsouviana)
    • Ten Pretty Girls
    • Texas Shuffle Step
    • Two-Step, Polka Two-Step
    • Waltz across Texas, Spoke-Line Waltz
    • Waltz, Couple
    • Western Schottische
    • Western Swing
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Betty Casey (1916–2001), author of The Complete Book of Square Dancing (and Round Dancing) and International Folk Dancing, U.S.A., was a noted teacher of square and folk dancing.